Sense of the Ancients

The feelings of the ancient Chinese are rich, dynamic and alive, with a wide range of subgenres and have been passed down from generation to generation of writers and developed and innovated, becoming multi-dimensional. A feeling can be written alone, but also "six roots of mutual use", that is, six roots "eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind" of the six types of organs and six dust "color, sound, smell, touch and law" mutual access to parallel, to create a kind of or multiple senses of the wonderful realm of one.

First, the ancient skin feeling is alive.

No weather forecasts, sunrise and sunset, seasonal changes, the ancients and the natural climate is an intimate and natural relationship, the somatosensory indexes are present and rely on the body's skin feeling.

From the Confucius spring clothes have been completed, bathing in the Yi, singing and return. To suddenly startled spring to the small peach branch; or from the pond born of spring grass, to the spring wind wrapped under the craggy spring night moment of a thousand gold; until the flowers and flowers fly and fall into the mud to herald the spring gone. People go out to trekking, willow, kite flying, cu swing, so that the spring water and spring breeze close to life.

With the flow of the seasons, the feeling is also progressive. Pear blossom courtyard soluble moon, banana under the sound of rain; yellow plum season rain, or blue cloud sky yellow leaves, or not if the willow flakes due to the wind, the wind is not frozen red flag, and therefore there are pounding practice tanning cloth, stuffed with cotton clothing, fire heating and so on, due to the sense of seasonal activities triggered by the physical climate. At the same time, people's clothing, food, housing and behavior in these climates can give rise to infinite stories, triggering infinite literary and poetic feelings.

"Meal", "food" and "drink" in the life of the ancients is placed in an extremely important position, "food is not too fine, chopping is not too fine. The food utensils and food can be seen from the excavated artifacts to the current life. The words for food are even more important in the Chinese language. For example, eating and drinking are strictly regarded as part of "ritual". In addition, China is located in a variety of climatic zones, four distinct seasons, and ethno-national as well as close exchanges with foreign countries and diverse, geographically different from the north, south, west and east, which gave birth to the ancient people a rich variety of ingredients, seasoning levels three-dimensional, complex cooking utensils, slaughtering techniques and knives, which for the ancient people have a strong sense of taste stimulation and stimulate the role of the. Cooks since ancient times on the butchers, easy teeth top chef, cookware and eating utensils on gold, silver, copper, iron, pottery, porcelain, bone, jade, glazed crystal, etc., can be made into exquisite cookware and eating utensils. And the general public and the officials and scholars and literati groups can be used as the object of consumption of food and drink, but also as the main body to develop and improve the diet, which greatly stimulates the catering industry to flourish.

From the "wine and grapes night light cup" to "jade bowl to amber light", food and wine fragrant tea and dew in the beautiful ware, such as "purple camel's peak out of the green kettle, the water essence of the plate line of vegetal scales". And edible birds and beasts of the mountains and sea food needless to say, and down to the folk to the court, the sign of affluence should first be implemented in the diet. Whether it is "snow foam milk flower", or leek bamboo shoots, polygonum mushrooms strutting "try on the spring plate", "dolphin want to go", "Yue Pu yellow citrus", or "delicate hand break new orange", "peach blossom water Mandarin fish fat", or chrysanthemum yellow crab fat chelle wine, or winter red mud stove, new fire try new tea, the ancient palate is always closely linked to eat. So modern Hu Shi, Zhou Zuoren and Lu Xun, Liang Shiqiu, Zhu Ziqing, Wang Zengqi, Zhang Daqian, Mei Lanfang, Zhang Eileen ...... countless cultural celebrities inherited a consistent dietary temperament, firewood, rice, oil, salt, the breath of the breeding of how much of the cultural lineage of the genes, stained how many cultural and political figures of the lips and teeth. Confucius, Zhang Han, Li Bai, Du Fu, Su Shi, Yuan Mei to the current Zhai Yongming, A Lai and so on.

Third, the vision of the ancients is colorful and vivid.

China's vast natural mountains and rivers and natural resources, coupled with the multi-ethnic regional civilization and cultural characteristics, coupled with exchanges with foreign civilizations, in the natural civilization and human civilization are both independent of each other and intertwined with each other **** born, so the poems and writings and fugues, decorative arts, jade and stoneware, gold, silver and silk, porcelain and silk, weaving, dyeing and eating, living and transportation .... ...constantly developing, shaping a colorful visual space.

The application of visual color through the dynasties of different periods of continuous development and inheritance and change, gift lovers "left me Tongtube", clothes dyeing "loaded with Xuan loaded yellow, I Zhu Kong Yang", mourning lovers "green Ruoxi clothes, green yellow wrapped", Qu Yuan Hibiscus for the clothes of the four seasons of the landscape oriole and willow egret green sky, "green, fat, red and thin," "avoiding the wind and red, shocked by the rain, green, green, red, and added," "plantain residual red want to be all," "Crystal Palace five clouds flying", "Crystal Palace five clouds flying", "the red and red". Palace five clouds fly", weather such as "the setting sun melts gold, the twilight clouds together", "blue cloud sky, yellow leaf ground, autumn color even wave, wave on the cold smoke green", clothing such as "jade carving unicorn belt red, emerald for the lotus leaf drooping sideburns lip", or "lose my rouge mountain, another my women have no color", or "moth snow willow gold strands" makeup and clothing colors, horses and cars have a "green sparrow and white bull's-eye boat, the four corners of the Dragon Zi streamers, the gold car as a wheel of jade, tramping buckskin horse, fringe gold skeleton saddles. Tasseled gold skeleton saddle", street decoration "flower market lights like day" and so on.

Painting and calligraphy on the "fluttering as if shocked, as if swimming dragons" "Yan tendons, willow bone" "swimming dragons walking viper" diversified, it can be said that the ancients of the visual space is extremely rich and colorful.

Fourth, the hearing of the ancients is multi-dimensional.

Clothing has "ring pendant", music is more brilliant. "Rites" and "music" together, has always been for the ancient emperors to pay attention to, become an important part of the ruling system. A large number of artifacts unearthed from the Zenghouyi Tomb show that as far back as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in the 5th century B.C., the Chinese people reached an unimaginable level of musicality and instrumental performance. Idioms such as "yellow bells and big lu", "lower class" and "high mountains and flowing water" had already been integrated into daily life. In terms of musical instrument manufacturing, the guqin has "A wave of the hand for me is like listening to the pines in ten thousand ravines"; the serpent "The song ends and the people are gone, but the several peaks on the river are green"; the pipa has "Noisy, noisy, noisy, and mixed playing, and the big and small pearls fall down on the jade plate"; "The monk pounces on the broken glazed mantle, and the strong man breaks the coral whip"; and the pipa has "Noisy and noisy, the big and small pearls fall down on the jade plate". The lute, "noisy and mixed play, big pearls and small pearls fall from the jade disk", "the monk broke the glass bowl, the strong man broke the coral whip"; zheng "a Yongmen tears to eyelashes, two red carp dorsal fins, three white apes arm to expand cheeks".

Naturally, there is "wind Xiao Xiao Ruoxi Yi Shui Cold", swallow murmuring, Zi Gui cries, geese barking sound broken, or wind Xiao Xiao bamboo soughing, autumn water Canyanyuan Yuan, leaf fall has a sound, snow also has a sound.

Whether it is to promote the weaving of the east wall, mayflies and evening song sad trigger life infinite feelings; Guan Guan Ju, chickens singing mulberry tree, Chaimen barking, crowing and moon fall, love and hate, love and hate, separation and gathering and dispersal, how many of the dust and events of the past.

Fifth, the sense of smell of the ancients is sensitive and diverse.

Ancient people for the smell of incense is extremely important. From Qu Yuan, "Chu Rhetoric", "Li Sao" a variety of herbs, "Poetry" fruits, flowers and grasses, or the Shishu Xinyu burning pepper such as toilets, or flowers and fruits decorated with clothes coated face or lead to the room, or incense burner scented bag purse a class, these are the ancients of the Dior, Chanel and other fragrance brands. Ancient people will also borrow the aroma, the door in front of the courtyard planting flowers and grass, open the window and open the door to have the aroma conveyed.

Song Dynasty Ding Pian "Tian Xiang biography" recorded: "incense is used from the ancient carry on". As late as the Wei and Jin dynasties, incense has become an integral part of people's daily lives. Since the Tang and Song dynasties, with the large number of foreign spices imported, and gradually formed a literati dominated incense culture, a variety of incense, spices, incense spectrum, incense meter are becoming more and more perfect, and left a lot of poems and songs about incense.

Thus, the incense culture, tea culture, flower culture, the formation of three Chinese literati three categories of unique spiritual olfactory symbols. Incense in the special olfactory symbols in addition to smoke, color, spices, incense and incense discs and cakes and other visual symbols, tea in the taste symbols in addition to the sound of grinding tea and color and other multiple symbols, flower culture in the shape, color, smell and other aspects of the ancient people with multiple dimensions of aesthetics, but also can be eaten, made of various types of cosmetics, dyeing materials, head and face decorations, and so on.

So the ancient people's life, the fragrance is always lingering.

Sixth, the ancient people's sense of time and space is dense and grand.

The son on the river said, "The passing of time is like the passing of time". Qu Yuan, "but the world's infinite Ruoxi, mourning the life of the long diligence", Du Fu, "boundless fallen trees under the Xiaoxiao, not the Yangtze River rolls" boundless thoughts, Yanshu, "can endure the years like water like water sound, a long way to go without stopping" and so on.

The vast territory and multi-dimensional terrain, the many mountains and rivers give the Chinese people an incomparable sense of space. The narrative tradition since ancient times, wars, and the rise and fall of dynasties have deepened the sense of time. Xie Lingyun's "transported without drowning things, the year is gone feel already rushed", Chen Zi'ang "before not see all people, after not see the next, think of heaven and earth's yo-yo, alone in pathos, however, slumping" will be the concept of time and space at the same time, so in the cosmos set off, in the small world gave birth to the infinite feeling of the world and the ego of the remote and insignificant.

Seventh, the ancient people's sense of self-consciousness and ontology is multi-dimensional.

Self-awareness and self-consciousness have always appeared in the thinking system of the Chinese. What is man? This kind of thinking is constantly explored and deepened through man's communication with all things in heaven and earth, and man's communication with history and time. During the Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties, the self-consciousness of the scholars and literati reached its peak. Personalized writing is embodied in the literati scholar class, and this feeling is again multi-dimensional.

From the ancient myths of Pangu's opening up the sky and earth, Kuafu's chasing the sun, Jingwei's reclamation of the sea, and Dayu's curing of the water, to the questions about the heaven and earth and nature of the world in the Chu Rhetoric's "Heavenly Questions," "Li Sao," and "Nine Songs," at this time, people had already had a desire to explore the position of human beings in the universe, and had already sprouted the scrutiny of the role of the self. One moment is the melancholy and dynamic self in the passage of time, the other is the hermit's self in Tao Yuanming's "There is a true meaning here, which I want to recognize and have forgotten to say", and the other is the pure self in the world of Li Bai's "The only thing that you don't get tired of is the Jingting Mountain".

And the border of the battle "drunk on the sands of the gentleman do not laugh, the ancient conquests a few people back" of the wild waves of the self, time to wash down from the teenager "teenagers listen to the rain song upstairs" to "now listen to the rain of the monks under the hut" of the life of the step-by-step refining of the self, "the ancient sages are all lonely! The ego of the flow in "All the Sages are Lonely", the ego of the generation of "Du Fu's" "A piece of flying flowers reduces spring, and the wind drifts ten thousand points of sadness", the ego of a father and husband in "Remote Pity for the Little Children, Unexplained Memory of Chang'an", or the ego of a thinking woman in "Thinner than a Yellow Flower", the ego of the scholars and scholars in "Fallen into Mud and Grind it into Dust" and "Leaving a Clear Vibe in Dry Heaven", the ego of the scholars and scholars, and the ego of the ancient scholars. The ancient self-consciousness has been developing among different groups, and self-consciousness has always been a kind of ontological consciousness of life.

Eighth, the ancients' sense of family and country is always there and branches connected to the heart.

This kind of national sorrow, nostalgia, and travel hatred are the unique spiritual symbols of the ancient Chinese. From the "bright moon on the sea" to "thousands of miles of **** Cindy", from "the country is broken in the mountains and rivers" to "but sadly do not see the nine states with the", from "the sadness of the same From "A Sound of He Manzi" to "Eight Thousand Miles of Road, Clouds and Moon", from "Eclipsing the Soul of the Countryside, Chasing the Thoughts of the Travelers" to "The Sun is Setting in the West, Broken Hearted". The sun sets in the west, the broken hearted people in the end of the world"......

The old land, the home, the wanderer, the draftsman, the departed ...... affection, friendship and brotherhood, these spiritual traditions such as silk has been continued to the heart of each countryman now.

Ninth, the ancients are rich in supernatural feelings.

Such as the Classic of the Mountain and the Sea, all kinds of ghosts and monsters novels, based on China's world, how much rich orthodox articles, there are how many circulating in the community is not the mainstream of the novels of monsters and monsters, the ancients of course, the imagination is also rich.

The imagination of the Chinese people is a catalyst, in the material culture and spiritual civilization for the literati to bring the sight, hearing, taste, touch, feeling and other rich material reserves, in the lines of text, ink, paper and ink and other material tools with the help of all kinds of works of art in the manifestation.

Thus, from the ancient Song of Songs, the magnificent imagination of the Chu people, the Han people's T-shaped silk paintings of heaven, man, ghosts and gods in the three-dimensional imagination, to the Classic of Mountains and Seas, Gu Kaizhi and Wang Xizhi's dynamic visual imagination, the Sui and Tang Dynasty novels, and then to the Border Plugs and Li Bai's grand and strange poetic space, until the Qing Zi Bu Bu Bu, Pusongling's school of novels of the heritage of the imagination. The line of imagination has never been broken.

Tenth, China's ancient philosophy of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism under the influence of the "six roots of mutual use" concept is also very common, after the introduction of Buddhism, deepening the relationship between ancient Chinese people on the relationship between heaven and earth, the relationship between human beings and their own relationships, the relationship between human beings and other people's feelings, embodied in the form of various types of art is a sense of understanding and philosophical poems and compositions of the popularity of the text.

Looking at the poems of the Tang and Song dynasties, the visual and auditory space and the state of mind are transformed, such as "the bright moon shines among the pines, and the clear water flows over the stones", "the sound of music is like a sob, like a complaint, like a complaint, like an adoration", "the phoenix screams when the jade is broken in the Kunshan Mountains, and the hibiscus weeps and dews and laughs with the fragrant orchids", "the place where Nüwa refines the stone to mend the sky, the stone breaks to make the rain fall", and so on, and in the military environment "the air of the first day spreads like gold watches, and the cold light shines on the iron clothes", and the senses flow directly into each other. "Feelings flow directly into each other, language intangible in the tangible is "red apricot branches of spring", "threshold chrysanthemums worried about smoke orchids weeping dew", "ask the gentleman can have a few more worries, just like a river of spring water flowing east", "only under the eyebrows but on the heart" and so on.

Wei Jin metaphysical poem "touch the bacteria sad first fall, climb the pine envy after withering" Buddhist theory, such as "Bodhi has no tree, the mirror is not a platform", philosophical "life is like a journey, I am also a pedestrian", "The mountains are different from each other, the heights are different from each other", "The canal is as clear as a river, for there is a source of living water to come" will be the rationale of philosophical metaphor to the real life, in order to have a view of nothing; "Sinking boat on the side of a thousand sails, the front of a sick tree The "ten thousand trees spring", "the mountain is back in doubt, the darkness of the flowers and a village" to write life in a desperate situation; "line to the end of the water, sit and watch the clouds rise" to have me to write me, I forget, free and transcendent.

In short, the feeling of the ancients is vivid, skin feeling, vision, hearing, taste, smell, space-time feeling, sense of self-consciousness, sense of family and country, supernatural feeling, as well as the sense of the ten aspects of the inheritance and carry forward. This has its own local traditions, but also foreign cultures imported and absorbed under the development of borrowing.